HOSANNA COMPLEXE DE SANTE

KOLLO

MONTHLY UPDATE
SEPTEMBER
HOSANNA COMPLEXE DE SANTE
Kollo - NIGER

The clinic could treat over 1.000 patients during the month of September. The total
number of patients who got medical help in the HOSANNA/humedica Clinic in Kollo
reaches now 9.600 in only seven months of service. Once again, more than 50% of our
patients were children under five years who are the most vulnerable population group,
especially here in Niger where the children mortality is extremely high.
The doctors and nurses treated a total of 1.532 sicknesses. The major health issues
were malaria (over 40 % of all cases!!), coughing and common cold, dermatology
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It is now malaria peak season as the rain just stopped falling and stagnant water is
disappearing bit by bit. In our effort to prevent this disease which is still one of the first
killers in Africa, we did not only treat hundreds of malaria patients this month but also
continued to treat mosquito nets with special insecticide. More than 200 mosquito nets
were brought to our hospital. This activity is mainly supported by the Niger government
through the district of Kollo who provided the insecticide tablets for free.

The clinic team had the support of Dr Matthias Heß, a

specialist in Internal medicine who came from Germany to
work as a volunteer for three weeks. It was already his
second stay in Kollo and he was a blessing for the patients
and for the team.

The clinic was not only happy to receive personal support but also our partner
OPERATION BLESSING INTERNATIONAL included the clinic in their health project which
supplies first quality medicine to the district of Kollo. Thanks to these donations, we can
guarantee once more the quality and the effectiveness of the treatment from which our
patients benefit. Especially chronic cases like diabetes and hypertension are often
underestimated in African countries and people are suffering from the high prices and
the difficult availability of medicine. We will now and in future be able to take these
cases in charge and to provide free and good treatment for them.

During the month, we had an increasing number of children in difficulties who needed
special attention and for whom we would like to ask you to pray for. One of them is a
little girl named Zeinabou. She came to us at the age of 14 days with her mother
Aishatou, only fifteen years old. They come from the small village Say, at a walking
distance of 2 hours from Kollo. This Touareg baby has a very hard time on this earth:
she was born premature, after 8 months according to the mother. We were shocked by
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her health and nutritious status: only 900 grams, malaria, an infection at the stump and
conjunctivitis. Not for the first time, we wished so hard to have our inpatient ward to be
able to give this child a better treatment. But for the whole clinic team it was clear that a
reference to Niamey would not be a solution to this problem. After consulting all
together, we decided to make all possible effort to make this child feel better. We
started to feed her and to encourage the mother to continue breastfeeding – but
Zeinabou was just too weak to suck. Since ten days, she has a nasal-gastric feeding tube
which enables us to give her enough nutritional value that she gained 200 gr in only six
days. By now, we are unfortunately yet to tell that she is a healthy little baby, but she is
definitely better: she opens her eyes, discovers the world around her, cries if she doesn’t
like something, sucks at her mother’s breast, moves legs and arms and tries the whole
day to remove he tube from her nose (and in fact, she succeeded already twice!)…
There is still a long way to go for the little one but we believe that God brought her at
the right moment in the right place and that WE will do everything that she will be a
happy and healthy girl very soon.

PLEASE PRAY FOR THOSE CHILDREN

THAT THEY WILL GET HEALTHY
AND FIND A WAY OUT OF MALNUTRITION.

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